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I've done it.
Invictus 16 is submitted, so it'll hopefully be up sometime next week. That's assuming I navigated the new FA submission forms correctly - it's wonderful to not have to repeat-submit details that don't change from chapter to chapter, and to check that what's submitted looks like it has a chance of being correct, rather than sending it off into a black hole.
It's been a gruelling process, not least because I first wrote bits of it over two years ago, and I've read and re-read the final version until any life seems sucked away from it. I hope it'll come out better for all the people who have been waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) over the last year.
I'd put off answering reviews until I was more underway with the current chapter - a bad move, as it turned out - but I've been working my way through previous review threads trying to catch up on replies. One person suggested that I adapt it into an original novel... well, the thought had crossed my mind many moons ago, but I'd long since decided that it would be impractical - JKR's magic is too much part of the warp and weft of their interaction, if not their personality clash.
But I started wondering whether Invictus would fail as a paper book anyhow. Several reviewers have commented on the intensity of it, and perhaps that intensity is easier to stay with in the mesmerising scrolling of a web page than in the turning of pages read in a crowded train or the sofa at the centre of a family home. And it's a lot easier to put a book down when it all gets too much.
Perhaps why there are so few first-person-present novels out there in the offline world.
I'd be really interested to know what others think - are there any other characteristics of internet-fiction that would not be suited to other formats, or any writing styles that are particularly suited to the internet?
Invictus 16 is submitted, so it'll hopefully be up sometime next week. That's assuming I navigated the new FA submission forms correctly - it's wonderful to not have to repeat-submit details that don't change from chapter to chapter, and to check that what's submitted looks like it has a chance of being correct, rather than sending it off into a black hole.
It's been a gruelling process, not least because I first wrote bits of it over two years ago, and I've read and re-read the final version until any life seems sucked away from it. I hope it'll come out better for all the people who have been waiting patiently (and sometimes not so patiently) over the last year.
I'd put off answering reviews until I was more underway with the current chapter - a bad move, as it turned out - but I've been working my way through previous review threads trying to catch up on replies. One person suggested that I adapt it into an original novel... well, the thought had crossed my mind many moons ago, but I'd long since decided that it would be impractical - JKR's magic is too much part of the warp and weft of their interaction, if not their personality clash.
But I started wondering whether Invictus would fail as a paper book anyhow. Several reviewers have commented on the intensity of it, and perhaps that intensity is easier to stay with in the mesmerising scrolling of a web page than in the turning of pages read in a crowded train or the sofa at the centre of a family home. And it's a lot easier to put a book down when it all gets too much.
Perhaps why there are so few first-person-present novels out there in the offline world.
I'd be really interested to know what others think - are there any other characteristics of internet-fiction that would not be suited to other formats, or any writing styles that are particularly suited to the internet?
